Forbidden Apple

Forbidden Apple's first race was on July 24, 1998, at Belmont Park, where he came in seventh.^[2] The colt's first win came on September 13, 1998, in a Maiden Special Weight race at Belmont Park. On the same track, he then won an Allowance event on October 25, 1998.

It would not be until September 16, 2000, that Forbidden Apple won his first graded stakes race, when he took the mile and one-eighth Belmont Breeder's Cup Handicap. He then picked up another graded win in the one mile Kelso Handicap on October 8, 2000.^[2]

Forbidden Apple earned the biggest win of his career when he won the June 9, 2001, Manhattan Handicap at Belmont Park. He then got what turned out to be his last win on October 6, 2001, with a victory in Belmont's Kelso Handicap for the second time.^[2]

On June 8, 2002, Forbidden Apple attempted to defend his Manhattan Handicap title but finished second to Beat Hollow.^[2] He placed multiple times in 2002, coming close in the Bernard Baruch Handicap, Arlington Million, Kelso Handicap and the Breeders' Cup Mile won by Val Royal.^[3]

Forbidden Apple finished his career on January 25, 2003, with a third-place finish in the 2003 Barretts/CTBA Turf Stakes.^[2]

Forbidden Apple was euthanised on June 16, 2025, at the age of 30.^[4]

In 2014, the New York Racing Association (NYRA) inaugurated a one-mile stakes race on turf at Belmont Park in Forbidden Apple's honor. Open to horses age four and older, the event's first winner was the colt Sayaad, owned by the Shadwell Stable. In 2019, the Forbidden Apple Stakes was given Grade 3 status and transferred to Saratoga Racecourse. In 2023, the event was renamed to the Kelso Stakes.^[5]